DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-74,828

MIDWEST TRANSATLANTIC LINES, INC.
BEREA, OHIO

Certification Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended ("Act"), 19 U.S.C. § 2273, the Department of Labor
herein presents the results of an investigation regarding
certification of eligibility to apply for worker adjustment
assistance.
The group eligibility requirements for workers of a firm
under Section 222(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), can be
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
I. a significant number or proportion of the workers in
the workers' firm or an appropriate subdivision of the
firm have become totally or partially separated, or
are threatened to become totally or partially
separated;

II. the workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer
to a firm that employed a group of workers who
received a certification of eligibility under Section
222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), and such
supply or production is related to the article or
service that was the basis for such certification; and

III. either
(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the component
parts it supplied to the firm described in paragraph
(2) accounted for at least 20 percent of the
production or sales of the workers' firm; or
(B) a loss of business by the workers' firm with the firm
described in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to
the workers' separation or threat of separation.

Section 222(d) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(d), defines the
term "Supplier" as "a firm that produces and supplies directly
to another firm component parts for articles, or services used
in the production of articles or in the supply of services, as
the case may be, that were the basis for a certification of
eligibility under subsection (a) [of Section 222 of the Act] of
a group of workers employed by such other firm."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on November 5, 2010 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Midwest Transatlantic Lines, Inc., Berea, Ohio. The
workers provide customs brokering and international freight
forwarding services.
The investigation revealed that workers of Midwest
Transatlantic Lines, Inc., who are engaged in employment
related to customs brokering and international freight
forwarding services, meet the criteria as Suppliers for
secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
of workers have been separated over the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because Midwest Transatlantic
Lines, Inc. supplied services directly to a firm with a TAA-
certified worker group and the services were related to the
articles that were the basis for the TAA certification.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Midwest Transatlantic Lines, Inc. with the TAA-certified
firm, with respect to customs brokering and international
freight forwarding services sold to the TAA-certified firm,
contributed importantly to worker separations at Midwest
Transatlantic Lines, Inc.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Midwest Transatlantic
Lines, Inc., Berea, Ohio, who are engaged in employment related
to customs brokering and international freight forwarding
services, meet the worker group certification criteria under
Section 222(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c). In accordance
with Section 223 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273, I make the
following certification:


"All workers of Midwest Transatlantic Lines, Inc., Berea,
Ohio, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after November 2, 2009, through two years
from the date of certification, and all workers in the
group threatened with total or partial separation from
employment on the date of certification through two years
from the date of certification, are eligible to apply for
adjustment assistance under Chapter 2 of Title II of the
Trade Act of 1974, as amended."
Signed in Washington, D.C., this 7th day of December, 2010


/s/Michael W. Jaffe___________
MICHAEL W. JAFFE
Certifying Officer, Office of
Trade Adjustment Assistance